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<h1 class="sectionedit1" id="options_setting">OPTIONS Setting</h1>
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Click the <img src="opencpn/manual/settings.h.32_tok.90bb99_w.32.jpg" class="media" alt="" width="32" height="32" /></a>icon to open the <strong>Options Dialog</strong> which has 6 tabs, as seen below. All Settings that are not context sensitive are set in Options. The Settings are persistent, meaning that settings entered in one session will still be there on restart.
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Click the <img src="opencpn/manual/settings.h.32_tok.90bb99_w.32.jpg" class="media" alt="" width="32" height="32" /></a>icon to open the <strong>Options Dialog</strong> which has 6 tabs, as seen above. All Settings that are not context sensitive are set in Options. The Settings are persistent, meaning that settings entered in one session will still be there on restart.
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